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Monthly Archives: August 2022
The Price Of Liberty Is Eternal Vigilance
by Teo Soh Lung Laws in Singapore are speedily enacted and speedily amended. I don’t know if existing laws are ever speedily repealed! Sometimes new laws are made without any fanfare. Sometimes the public and the legal profession are invited … Continue reading
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社会企业“第八功能”及其出版物
林康 “第八功能”(Function 8),是一家社会企业(Social Enterprise)的名号。 一、先做“面”的介绍 根据“新加坡社会企业中心”(Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise, raiSE)给出的定义,社会企业是社会目标明确的商业实体,经营理念清晰,把经营所得用以实现其社会目标。 话说得简单明白,但社会企业仍有各种不同类别。 譬如,新型的私营化小贩中心,配合官方政策,交由社会企业如肥雄集团(Fei Siong Group)、职总富食客(NTUC Foodfare)、音质集团(Timbre Group)、小贩管理(Hawker Management)、海瑟商业集团(OTHM)管理。 这些社会企业管理的小贩中心,曾因为出台各项举措,对小贩施加不尽合理的限制,引来美食家司徒国辉(KF Seetoh)、学者刘浩典(Donald Low)等的批评,甚至大力挞伐。 * * * “第八功能”和上述社会企业不是一类。 它基本上是具有商业分支的公民组织(Non-Governmental Organization, NGO),藉由某种商业运作(如销售商品或服务)筹措资金,以支撑起公民组织落实其社会机能的经费。 “第八功能”在其脸书专页,作以下自我介绍: 取名“第八功能”,寄托着我们的自我期许。电脑有“第八功能键”(F8 key),能将出问题的电脑重新设置为“安全”与基本模式,从而执行“问题查找”(troubleshooting)。我们期待也能如此,从凝聚社会出发,循构成社会坚强、公平、有意义的基础进行反思,并探索民主进程在达成上述目标中可扮演的角色。 通过举办研讨会、座谈、工作坊、交流与思考,我们希望重启批判性思维,给因为着重追逐经济发展的权宜而变得陈腐的社会,重新注入活力,找回生而为人不能或缺的根本:人的尊严与自由。 * * * “第八功能”在举办研讨会、座谈、工作坊(如上述)之余,出版书刊其实也是其工作之一,而且是重点的工作。以下出版物清单,可资印证: 2012年,以英文出版陈华彪(Tan Wah Piow)的《烟幕与镜子——“马克思主义阴谋”追踪》(Smokescreens & … Continue reading
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